Disappointment the Never-Failing Pilot

Will the earth still keep her place among the planets; will she still journey with unmarked regularity round the sun; … will beasts pasture, birds fly, and fishes swim, when man, the lord, possessor…

I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.

Farewell to the giant powers of man,—to knowledge that could pilot the deep-drawing bark through the opposing waters of shoreless ocean,—to science that directed the silken balloon through the…

Once it was so; now is man lord of the creation? Look at him—ha! I see plague! She has invested his form, is incarnate in his flesh, has entwined herself with his being, and blinds his heaven-seeking…

The choice is with us; let us will it, and our habitation becomes a paradise. For the will of man is omnipotent, blunting the arrows of death, soothing the bed of disease, and wiping away the tears…